PRISON AGAIN

understood to be the elder brother of Enver Pasha, he was at
one time a prisoner in the hands of the Allies, and was sentenced
by court-martial to death for certain offences during the war and
subsequent to the Armistice. He, however, succeeded in escaping
from British custody at Batoum, and as he had, I knew, always
acted as Enver's representative, I was immensely surprised to find
him now at Erzeroum.

Incidentally I afterwards heard that he left Erzeroum for
Angora, but never arrived there, though whether or not his
throat was cut on the road, as is quite probable, I never have been
able to ascertain.

In the meanwhile, what interested me most was that, having
many sources of information at his disposal, he assured me that
I could not be much longer retained by the Turks, whose real
object in confining me was to make use of me, both as a channel
of communicating their views unofficially to the Allies and as a
means of obtaining Reouf Bey's release by exchange; and that,
although they had now come to the conclusion that I was of no
service for their first purpose, yet they were certain to make use of
me for the second, which could not be now long delayed.

All this latter time we were much better off than we had before
been, as we were now allowed to sit on the roof of the prison,
where we spent all and every day in the open air, and as our funds
were ample, we were able to have meat, which the men managed
to eat, though my own digestion was too much destroyed to permit
of my eating it myself. Still, I had soup every day, and, though
weak, was certainly not then losing strength, though I am quite
convinced I could never have survived another winter at Erze-
roum. On October 2nd, I received a visit from Emin Bey, who
told me orders had been received for us again to be sent to the coast
for exchange, and that we should leave on the 5th. Our prepara-
tions were soon made, and I obtained this time a different type
of conveyance, of a model unknown in Europe, but in which one
can He down, and which has a roof; and in this peculiar chariot,
accompanied by four arabas, we started on October 5th.

We arrived without incident at Trebizond on October i4th,
the tenth day after leaving Erzeroum. I noted, however, that the
coast range and its fertile valleys, hitherto intensively cultivated
by the Greeks, was at this time everywhere deserted, the villages

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